Posts Tagged ‘Chuck-Hagel’

Chuck Hagel to be Obama’s running mate?

August 14th, 2008 | 1 Comment

I’ve seen this a couple of times: Talk of Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel as a potential running mate for Democratic candidate Barack Obama tends to confound partisans in both parties. Sure, they’ve been spotted together a few times, but the bottom line is no.  Obama doesn’t appeal to the rational, middle of the road Democrats [...]

Bush vetoes the Iraqi pullout bill ( and restores the Constitution )

May 2nd, 2007 | 4 Comments

Yesterday Bush vetoed the Iraqi pullout bill. In that bill, it had emergency spending for the military as well. That was both expected politically, and I expected it for bigger reasons. Spending will be done one way or another until a proper funding bill is presented. The war won’t stop just because a few loonies [...]